A new paradigm for being a conscious being here and now on beautiful Planet Earth. A cross between "synthesis", "renaissance", "cryogenics" and "benthic"..."a flowering of creativity that's extremely cool and very deep." And the name of a yahoo e-group I started in 2002, now with around 1800 members, mostly friends of mine. Cheers Jeff

Ricky Maynard is an
internationally-known indigenous Australian photographer and activist.
Originally from northern Tasmania, he and his wife Anita were living on
Flinders Island, Tasmania when we did this interview in February of
2013. Soon thereafter, the Maynards moved to Clark Island where they are
working with indigenous youth who have been in trouble with 'white
civilization.' In these interviews we talk about many things, from what
it's like living on Flinders Island...regarded as 'the worst of the
worst' places in Australia from the perspective of the indigenous
people, from the days of 'terra nullius' to the not so distant past...to
Ricky's numerous international sojourns as artist-in-residence...to
various dimensions of photography and artistic creativity in general.

Ricky is very much a photographer of the 'old school', and in many ways could be thought of as the 'Ansel Adams of Australia.' He works almost exclusively in large format black-and white film photography, and his primary goal as photographer and artist is to tell the real story of his people, the indigenous people of Tasmania, who were subjected to the most brutal treatment of anyone in Australia. A big part of Ricky's story is dispelling the institutionalized myth that the indigenous people of Tasmania are extinct. They are, in fact, very much alive and well, despite what the 'powers that be' have tried to do for the last 200 years!